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one of the things i truly believe is that a significant portion of this country is in the grip of a death cult

submitted 22 hours ago • 1531 comments

Elon Musk — the world’s richest man, who for the past two months has been dismantling or threatening to dismantle government services that help the less fortunate — is having a bad week, and Donald Trump feels sorry for him.

submitted 23 hours ago • 57 comments

And so here it is all laid out. The intention to overturn the Civil Rights Act,to dismantle the Dept of Education, to bankrupt leading universities, to replace liberal arts education w/something that conservatives haven’t created & don’t have the educators to create. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/07/o...

submitted 1 day ago • 117 comments

There were howls of protest and denial from the GOP any time we pointed out that Republicans want to cut Social Security. Now the most powerful official in the White House goes on TV and calls it "the big one to eliminate."

submitted 1 day ago • 1333 comments

American hunger and financial ruin, TB and AIDS around the world, measles here, Ukrainian deaths, etc. Someone should maybe start a Trump Regime Death Count kind of like the covid statistics from five years ago.

submitted 1 day ago • 16 comments

The co-president says speaking against Putin’s interests is akin to treason. So I guess that’s where we are now.

submitted 1 day ago • 558 comments

We are starting to see reports of National Weather Service workers being told to come back to work - with pay - as they have been sent letters saying they were fired 'in error.' This is another example of the DOGE cuts being reversed. This was sent to a fired NWS meteorologist in Idaho.

submitted 3 days ago • 56 comments

Musk is blaming "Herbert Sandler," among others, for secretly financing the protests and Tesla dealerships over the last few weeks. Sandler died in 2019.

submitted 3 days ago • 1117 comments

What’s that? Small businesses are struggling under Donald Trump and Elon Musk? You don’t say.

submitted 3 days ago • 56 comments

We've confirmed the US Bureau of Prisons has transferred trans women to men's prisons despite three court rulings blocking Trump's executive order “I’m continuing to be punished for existing. I'm a pawn in others' political games" -Whitney, 31-year-old woman taken to men's prison this week, told us

submitted 4 days ago • 250 comments

NEW: Two top Congressional Democrats on foreign policy matters pressed Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Friday about a now-cancelled effort to purchase $400 million worth armored electric vehicles made by Tesla. www.npr.org/2025/03/07/g...

submitted 4 days ago • 8 comments

They adopted a posture of total submission and it bought them precisely nothing. A lesson for the Trump era www.nytimes.com/live/2025/03...

submitted 4 days ago • 117 comments

The Trump admin canceled contracts with Maine's CDC supporting "enumeration at birth" -- the way 99% of American babies get their Social Security Numbers. Now Maine parents have to visit field offices in-person to get their newborn SSNs Why? No reason given. www.huffpost.com/entry/maine-...

submitted 5 days ago • 290 comments

JUST IN: The head of the US African Development Foundation is suing Peter Marocco and DOGE — and he is describing in detail the standoff in which he blocked DOGE from entering the agency's offices. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

submitted 5 days ago • 172 comments

After years of alarm over unelected bureaucrats pulling the strings, what better example can you find than this moment the US government is in? DOGE is the thing it claims to fear the most. Elon Musk is the problem he purportedly wants to solve. Doge is the Deep State. @brbarrett.bsky.social:

submitted 5 days ago • 51 comments

New from me: In the days after George Floyd’s death, Ben Shapiro said conservative and police calls for Derek Chauvin’s prosecution was proof that they weren’t racist or oblivious to police abuse. So what should we make of the fact that he and other right wingers now want Chauvin to be pardoned?

submitted 5 days ago • 50 comments

“This is private, confidential data including Social Security numbers and earnings of virtually all people in the country...” "Federal law restricts access 'to authorized persons and... authorized purposes' such as child support enforcement..." www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

submitted 5 days ago • 1221 comments

Trump claimed the Biden administration spent $8 million "making mice transgender." The White House tried to back up this number with records of funding for research into cancer, asthma, and HIV, some of which used transgenic (genetically modified) mice.

submitted 6 days ago • 821 comments

These same Justices held Biden could not use a statute passed by Congress for student debt relief because the statute authorized it but needed to extra double authorize it. But for Trump, he can simply ignore statutes and appropriations entirely, Congress is irrelevant.

submitted 6 days ago • 70 comments

Only five votes on the Supreme Court for Article I of the Constitution of the United States bsky.app/profile/stev...

submitted 6 days ago • 84 comments

BREAKING: By a 5-4 vote, the Supreme Court LIFTS its hold on a lower court order compelling the Trump administration to resume nearly $2 billion in foreign aid funding. The funds MUST be disbursed. Roberts and Barrett join the liberals. Obviously, this is huge. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...

submitted 6 days ago • 103 comments

this country is for sale and this is the price menu the most corrupt presidency in history and it’s all right out in the open

submitted 7 days ago • 15 comments

"veterans aren't fit for jobs" -the White House

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

Alina Habba on veterans who have been fired from government jobs: "Perhaps they're not fit to have a job at this moment."

submitted 7 days ago • 5991 comments

Trudeau: "I want to speak first directly to the American people. We don't want this. We want to work with you as a friend and ally. We don't want to see you hurt either. But your government has chosen to do this to you. As of this morning, markets are down and inflation is set to rise dramatically."

submitted 7 days ago • 738 comments

Tens of thousands of people are dead, multiple cities and towns have been almost completely destroyed, and millions of people are displaced. And JD Vance laughs and smiles with Hannity about the invasion like it’s a game.

submitted 8 days ago • 291 comments

Trump has proposed a $5 million “gold card” that would allow the global rich to buy residency/citizenship in the United States. In (most) other countries, people are only taxed by the country where they legally reside. Not so with U.S. citizens and tax residents. Regardless of where a 1/4

submitted 8 days ago • 2 comments

Unconstitutional. Appropriations bills are laws. If the president is not bound by them, he can make laws by fiat and is acting like a dictator. No Democrat can vote for any appropriations or debt ceiling bill while this is happening.

submitted 8 days ago • 278 comments

The FAA is investigating why multiple commercial flights about to land at Ronald Reagan National Airport, near Washington DC, repeatedly received midair collision alerts over the weekend when there were no other aircraft nearby.

submitted 8 days ago • 184 comments

The Senate majority has just confirmed Linda McMahon-who has supported the dismantling of the Dept of Education, advocated for school privatization, and has no firsthand experience as an educator or administrator-as Education secretary. www.politico.com/live-updates...

submitted 8 days ago • 34 comments

Impending tariffs on Canada and Mexico risk driving up US car prices by as much as $12,000

submitted 8 days ago • 43 comments

NEWS: The USAID official put on leave for disseminating two memos about Rubio's failure to push through life-saving foreign aid was in the process of writing a THIRD memo when fired. We obtained it. It's far more alarming than the first two. www.thebulwark.com/p/what-a-wee...

submitted 8 days ago • 252 comments

Percent of school vouchers that go to religious institutions (schools and the churches that run them): Florida - 82% Arizona ESP - 87% (older AZ program: 96%) North Carolina - 92% Ohio - 91% Wisconsin - 96% Indiana - 98%

submitted 9 days ago • 33 comments

First, they said postponed; now the meeting is canceled. That means no flu shots next year. “'It’s a six-month production cycle,' Dr. Offit said. 'So one can only assume that we’re not picking flu strains this year.'" Fundamentally, that's a form of mass murder. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/26/u...

submitted 12 days ago • 305 comments

Zelensky: public support from world leaders Trump: public support from his cabinet, party members and, uh, Russian leaders

submitted 11 days ago • 16 comments

“Why don’t you say thank you”

submitted 11 days ago • 45 comments

Trump's press conference with Zelensky really makes it feel official, at least for our foreign policy. We're not on the side of liberal democracies. Things are going to get really fucking bad.

submitted 11 days ago • 39 comments

Happening right in front of us

submitted 11 days ago • 92 comments

Today is the economic blackout. Put a 24-hour halt to all spending with the wretched sponsors of fascism. 🚮 #EcomonicBlackout #February28th

submitted 11 days ago • 6 comments

NEW: A majority of voters (57%) think Trump’s FAA firings are making air travel less safe. www.dataforprogress.org/blog/2025/2/...

submitted 12 days ago • 15 comments

Breaking: FDA's March meeting to select flu shot strains for 2025-2026 season has been canceled per email sent to committee members, a VRBPAC member told me. drug companies need about 6 months leeway to make shots in time for fall vax campaigns. #healthpolicy

submitted 13 days ago • 444 comments

So - I've actually led Ebola outbreak response at USAID. This is bunk from Elon. They have laid off most of the experts, they're bankrupting most of the partner orgs, have withdrawn from WHO, and muzzled CDC. What's left is a fig-leaf effort to cover their asses politically.

submitted 13 days ago • 480 comments